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what would be a good set of four suits for a toki pona deck of cards?

toki pona playing cards, our preliminary thinking about suits

I think for space reasons we'd want each suit to be one word - I'm imagining a naming scheme like "luka tu wan palisa", plus we have to repeat the suit symbol up to ten times in the card's design anyway.

So, looking at Wikipedia's suits page [en.m.wikipedia.org], we have:

  1. clubs/acorns
  2. cups/shields/hearts
  3. swords/roses/leaves/pikes/spades
  4. coins/bells/diamonds

I think 1=palisa is clearest, but maybe 2=poki, 3=utala, and 4=mani? Using poki instead of pilin is a little weird for us as US Americans but I don't hate it, and all of these are compromises anyway.

en.m.wikipedia.orgPlaying card suit - Wikipedia
Mar 04, 2025, 07:27 PM·Quiet public·Tusky
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toki pona playing card suits, scribble

palisa, poki, utala, and mani are pretty visually distinct, too

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